Upgrading Linux Mint from 12 to 13
In past, I had upgraded both Ubuntu and RHEL from one major version to another and it had worked fine without any issues. Both incidents were almost 5 years old. Thought that now things have come pretty far off from the beginning so may be things would be much more easier than those times. But upgrading wasn't a smooth road. Nonetheless finally got the minty upgraded from Lisa to Maya. The issues faced were following
1) The ZTE dialer that I had installed from net in 'Lisa' edition didn't have any upgrade path for 'Maya'. Hence, the dpkg failed to execute post installation scripts. Referred some online help to realize that the script from the dpkg has to be edited for eliminating lines referring to ZTE.
2) The kernel wasn't upgrading from 3.0.0.20 to 3.2.x version because GRUB configurations have changed in the newer edition. It's not longer in the xx/share folder but in xx/lib folder. Accordingly edited the grub configuration files to map it to the new path and then kernel upgrade was completed.
3) The hibernate thing ain't working still even though power manager for both Mate and Gnome have been set with necessary parameters. Will need to see if ACPI need to be reconfigured for something.
Everything else seems to be okay except for the fact that Mate display in Lisa seemed prettier than Maya. May be some upgrade hasn't worked out fine. As for KDE and Gnome, they are pretty much okay. BTW, KDE seems to have come far ahead of Gnome in recent times. I have liked KDE more than both Mate and Gnome in Linux Mint.
Once these basic headaches are gotten rid of then will be moving onto messing Linux Mint with the WSO2 Stratos which seems to be demanding more than what laptop has got to offer. For example, the Stratos doc says that Stratos itself need 4 GB and the system should have at least 8 GB before it could gather courage to execute Stratos engine. I have a bad feeling that my laptop may end up cursing me and dying non-peacefully in the coming week courtesy these adventures :P
1) The ZTE dialer that I had installed from net in 'Lisa' edition didn't have any upgrade path for 'Maya'. Hence, the dpkg failed to execute post installation scripts. Referred some online help to realize that the script from the dpkg has to be edited for eliminating lines referring to ZTE.
2) The kernel wasn't upgrading from 3.0.0.20 to 3.2.x version because GRUB configurations have changed in the newer edition. It's not longer in the xx/share folder but in xx/lib folder. Accordingly edited the grub configuration files to map it to the new path and then kernel upgrade was completed.
3) The hibernate thing ain't working still even though power manager for both Mate and Gnome have been set with necessary parameters. Will need to see if ACPI need to be reconfigured for something.
Everything else seems to be okay except for the fact that Mate display in Lisa seemed prettier than Maya. May be some upgrade hasn't worked out fine. As for KDE and Gnome, they are pretty much okay. BTW, KDE seems to have come far ahead of Gnome in recent times. I have liked KDE more than both Mate and Gnome in Linux Mint.
Once these basic headaches are gotten rid of then will be moving onto messing Linux Mint with the WSO2 Stratos which seems to be demanding more than what laptop has got to offer. For example, the Stratos doc says that Stratos itself need 4 GB and the system should have at least 8 GB before it could gather courage to execute Stratos engine. I have a bad feeling that my laptop may end up cursing me and dying non-peacefully in the coming week courtesy these adventures :P